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The Majakowskiring (named after Vladimir Mayakovsky ) is an ellipse-shaped street in the Pankow district of Berlin , Germany , in the Niederschönhausen locality. It was famous as the residence of many senior figures in the government of the German Democratic Republic .

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7-516: The Majakowskiring neighbourhood ( Ortslage ) is situated between Grabbeallee to the west and northwest, Ossietzkystraße and Schlosspark to the east, Schloss Schönhausen to the northeast, and the Panke river to the south. Until 4 May 1950, the northern section was called Kronprinzenstraße and the southern section Viktoriastraße . It was then renamed after the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovski . For

14-584: A short time it was called Majakowskistraße . Most of the houses were built in the 1920s and are mainly mansions which were inhabited by industrialists and artists; most of them were first requisitioned by the Soviets after the Second World War . In exceptional cases the former owners were allowed to remain if they continued to pay rent, for example in the case of the house No. 29. When the owners left East Berlin in 1950, these also were expropriated. Until 1960,

21-706: Is a street in the Pankow borough of Berlin. It is located between the Schlosspark and the Berliner Straße. In the street there is a statue of Carl von Ossietzky , after whom the street is named. The street crosses the river Panke , and is connected to the Majakowskiring . The street was known as Schloss Straße until it was renamed by the East German government in the 1970s. This German road or road transport-related article

28-625: The Majakowskiring quarter became shielded from the outside world. After the October 1956 Hungarian Revolution , the East German leadership was afraid of the effect of such riots in the East Germany and decided that it was better for the elite to live in less populated place. At first, it was decided to move to Hoppegarten , east of East Berlin , because there was a fast escape route from there over

35-442: The house they originally lived in. Instead, she was assigned house number 12, in which she lived up to her death in 2002. In 1975, house 28/30 was demolished, as part of the process of erasing every reminder of Walter Ulbricht from history. Houses and their inhabitants: 52°34′31″N 13°24′10″E  /  52.57528°N 13.40278°E  / 52.57528; 13.40278 Ossietzkystra%C3%9Fe Ossietzkystraße

42-598: The members of the GDR government lived here, after the houses were converted to the taste of the new inhabitants by architects like Hans Scharoun . The Majakowskiring (and likewise the Pankow district) became a synonym for the GDR government. Thus Konrad Adenauer spoke of the "gentlemen in Pankoff", and Udo Lindenberg sang of the "special train to Pankow". The government representatives living in

49-472: The motorway eastward. In the end, a complex was built in Waldsiedlung , Bernau bei Berlin , and the leadership moved there in 1960. Because of this sealing-off, people called the quarter Städtchen (little town). When Lotte Ulbricht wanted to return to the Majakowskiring after the death of her husband Walter Ulbricht in 1973, the barriers and controls were waived. However she was forbidden to return to

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